The Psychosocial Support in Emergencies Senior Specialist serves as the technical lead and manages program delivery of Save the Children’s Psychosocial Support Programs in U.S. emergency contexts. The incumbent deploys to disaster-affected areas and is responsible for supporting the immediate needs assessment, partner identification and training, program planning and implementation and ongoing technical support. The Senior Specialist monitors program data, tracks program budget and ensures partners have necessary program supplies. The incumbent is responsible for creating and contextualizing program and training content that best meets the needs of partners and program goals.
As a frontline representative of Save the Children, the position holder is required to ensure safety and protection of children and families that they come in contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.
Areas of Responsibility:
Serve as Psychosocial Technical Lead for U.S. Emergency Programs (20%)
- Support the development of response and recovery strategies; lead on the development of the psychosocial goals, objectives and inputs. Provide ongoing technical assistance as needed.
- Create and strengthen program and guidance materials, tools and processes to improve program quality.
- Lead community needs assessments and make recommendations on psychosocial programming implementation and adaptation and contextualization as needed
- Contribute to internal and external dialogue on children in emergencies through working groups, trainings and presentations as a psychosocial in emergencies expert
Manage Psychosocial Program Planning, implementation and Monitoring (25%)
- Help define Save the Children’s program offering in psychosocial programs for children and adult caregivers. Lead the creation of standard program models and program planning tools, including costing models.
- Help response and recovery teams create practical psychosocial program implementation plans that achieve realistic and ambitious goals.
- Contribute to the development of PSS program funding proposals and Help oversee psychosocial program budgeting and spending
- In partnership with the USPA Operations team, ensure program and training materials are supplied to program partners and staff as needed.
- Manage psychosocial program data collection tools and methods including program surveys, feedback forms and evaluations. Ensure partners are following regular reporting schedules and that data is entered regularly into Save the Children’s data monitoring database.
Cultivate and Manage Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) Partnerships (10%)
- Develop and strengthen strategic partnerships with national, state and local organizations, agencies and universities that contribute to children’s mental health and social emotional wellbeing and can enhance our emergency programming
- Create strong partnership agreements and guidelines for program implementation partners that help ensure quality program delivery
Develop and Deliver Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) Training to partners and emergency responders (20%)
- Develop and manage PSS training content to meet programming needs based on current research and evidence-based best practices
- Deliver PSS training to various audiences including program implementation partners and Save the Children emergency responders and volunteers.
- Help develop and implement PSS training plans with response teams that meet response goals.
Respond to Domestic Emergencies (25%)
- Deploy to domestic responses as the Psychosocial lead and/or serve as a programmatic backstop.
- Work closely in partnership with the Sr. Specialist of Child Protection to serve as backstops or backfill for each other as needed and increase technical bench strength
- Based on our business needs during a response, U.S. Emergencies employees, including the Sr. Specialist, Psychosocial Support in Emergencies, are expected to deploy for 3 to 6 weeks at a time.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, public health, behavioral health, child development or related field.
Skills/Experience:
- Must be willing to deploy to U.S. disaster for 3-6 weeks
- Minimum 5-7 years' experience in functional area including working directly with groups of children and their caregivers.
- Strong level of technical and/ or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to lead a program area, or provide the technical advice, guidance and direction related to various size programs and grants
- Excellent communication and presentation/facilitation skills
- Highly collaborative team player
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Travel up to 30%
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Public Health, Behavioral Health, Child Development or related field.
- Experience working in U.S. disaster recovery contexts
- Experience developing and delivering training to adult learners
- Experience in partnership cultivation and management
- Demonstrated ability programming to adapt programming in changing or complex environments
- Fluency in Spanish
Compensation/Benefits:
- Aetna Medical and Dental insurance with a concierge service
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Vision Insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefit Program
- Vacation and Sick leave
- Paid holidays
What makes us special!
- Generous Retirement Savings with matching company contributions of up to 8%
- Family Leave – 10 additional days of paid time off for you to use to care for your family members
- Additional Maternity and Paternity Leave – 30 days where parents can take additional paid leave (beyond short-term disability and FMLA) at the birth or adoption of a child during that critical first year!
- Critical Child Illness Leave – We hope you never have to use it, but we will provide an additional 30 days of paid leave per year should your dependent child be faced with a critical illness.
- Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Identity Protection, Home, Auto and additional Life insurances
- Summer Fun Fridays – During the summer months, early release at 1:30 pm every other Friday!
- Volunteer Day – One paid day a year to support the causes that matter to you!
- Ergonomic Options – Every employee at our HQ offices has the option of a sitting/standing desk
- Leadership and Employee Development Training, including:
- Our remarkable in-house CORE, Senior Management Development, and Leadership Development Programs
- Language learning opportunities
- Continuous Improvement skill development programs
- Brown Bag information sharing sessions
- Work hard/Play hard! We make sure there’s ample opportunity for fun, engagement, and celebration while you work, such as networking events, March Madness, World Cup, Dodgeball Tournaments, Take Your Child to Work Day, Founder’s Day, and our annual Day of Service
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 22 2019
Active Until:
Jul 22 2019
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit